Synonyms, Alternate Labels, and Nonpreferred Terms Admin August 26, 2016 Add Comment Taxonomy terms, Thesauri " Synonyms, Alternate Labels, and Nonpreferred Terms " is the title of my next conference presentation in October and in a differe...
Taxonomies vs. Thesauri: Practical Implementations Admin June 22, 2016 Add Comment Hierarchical taxonomy, Taxonomy creation, Taxonomy definitions, Thesauri The differences between taxonomies and thesauri and when to implement which has been a subject of previous presentations of mine and a prev...
Vocabularies and Controlled Vocabularies Admin December 31, 2015 Add Comment ANSI/NISO Z39.19, Classification schemes, Controlled vocabularies, ISO 25964, Taxonomy standards, Thesauri I have long considered a taxonomy as a particular, structured kind of controlled vocabulary. More recently, however, I have been hearing of ...
One or More Taxonomies Admin September 23, 2014 Add Comment Categories, Hierarchical taxonomy, Taxonomy creation, Taxonomy definitions, Thesauri In the various definitions of taxonomy, one aspect of the definition that is often missing is what constitutes a single taxonomy (or thesaur...
Indexing vs. Thesaurus Creation Admin March 15, 2014 Add Comment Indexing, Related terms (Associative relationships), Taxonomy creation, Taxonomy definitions, Thesauri The activities of back-of-the-book indexing, document/digital asset indexing, and thesaurus/taxonomy creation all require similar skills, bu...
Taxonomies vs. Thesauri Admin January 28, 2014 Add Comment Hierarchical taxonomy, Taxonomy definitions, Thesauri Two taxonomy consulting projects I worked on last year seemed to lend themselves more to the development of a thesaurus than a set of hierar...